Roughing It

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad," in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise, "Roughing It" documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867.

Genres: Classics

488 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1962

About the author

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

Reviews

[Shoshana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This took several days to get through - I had to decide that I really wanted to be reading Twain, plus I'd not read the first volume - but it was, as Twain generally is, funny, engaging, insightful, and altogether a pleasant read. Some retro unintentional racism that I had trouble getting through, and I don't feel the need to read the first volume, but I had a good time with this one.

Not sure what to call the genre - speculative autobiography? Fictional nonfiction? Ha.

[Lynn Calvin]

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